Cannabis Could Increase Appetite Eating for Cancer Patients

Cannabis Could Increase Appetite Eating for Cancer Patients

Although still considered illegal, new studies show that marijuana or marijuana contain active ingredients that can increase appetite in patients with advanced cancer.

Research from the University of Alberta, Canada, showed that the active ingredient in marijuana called delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), can increase appetite and taste ability in patients with advanced cancer.

Previously, marijuana has been known to reduce symptoms of nausea in cancer patients, so the use of THC also can function as an appetite stimulant.

Results showed 37 percent of cancer patients who took 2.5 milligrams of the compound in pill form of THC 2 or 3 times a day for 18 days, reported an increase in appetite, compared with 30 percent of patients who took placebo (empty medicine).

And 64 percent of patients who took THC reported appetite increases as compared with 50 percent of patients who took placebo.

"Cannabis has a bad reputation for healthy people, but studies show that marijuana also has a good effect for cancer patients," says researcher Wendy Wismer, a food scientist at the University of Alberta in Canada, as reported by LiveScience, "Monday (28 / 2 / 2011).

Wismer said that cancer patients can enjoy a meal and not feel hungry is a big improvement to improve quality of life.

"Patients with advanced cancer often suffer from wasting syndrome, in which the body burns calories more quickly than people who do not suffer from cancer. But on the other hand, cancer patients often lose their appetite," said Wismer.

According to Wismer, this study may indicate that THC can help overcome wasting syndrome.

"Furthermore, these findings should be tested in larger studies with more patients," said Wismer.

The results of this study have been published on 22 February in the journal Annals of Oncology.

Key Slim Diet Not That Speed Metabolism

Key Slim Diet Not That Speed Metabolism

Actually you need not bother to go on a diet, because the key to lean is to accelerate the metabolic system. But the problem is how to make a fast metabolism?

The main thing that causes rapid or slow weight gain is the metabolic system and the process of burning calories.

The higher the metabolism, the food is digested faster and burn more calories, so it does not cause fat deposits in the body.

Metabolism is the process of the body that convert food and beverages consumed into energy. During a complex biochemical process, calories in foods and beverages that are combined with oxygen to release energy needed for bodily functions.

How to speed up the metabolism?

Here are some ways to speed up the metabolic system, as reported by Dailymail, Wednesday (01/26/2011):

1. Enlarge muscle
Muscle tissue is metabolically active and use energy even at rest, whereas adipose tissue (fat) did not do anything during recess. Do sports like weight lifting loads to be able to quickly increase your metabolism.

2. Caffeinated drinks
"A glass of caffeinated beverages such as tea and coffee can increase basal metabolic rate of about 5 to 10 percent for two hours," said Dr Nicola Lowe, senior nutrition lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire.

According to him, caffeine as a stimulant to enhance nerve activity and make more body movements. Caffeine also change the use of fuel, so the body burn more fat for energy instead of glucose.

3. Eat complex carbohydrates
Entering carbohydrate food list is often considered bad. But actually it could be good for your metabolism if you eat are complex carbohydrates, like potatoes, pasta, grains and tubers.

"There is evidence that if you eat lots of carbohydrates, you tend to burn excess fat in the body," said Tom Crisp, a consultant sports physician at the BUPA Barbican Centre, London.

4. Regular exercise
"Metabolism like a car engine. At rest just ticking over, when you burn gasoline started moving, and when moving faster the more gasoline is burned," said Tom Crisp. So, the more often you exercise, the higher the metabolic rate.

5. Always moving
People who are always active and engaged will have a high metabolic rate, so that usually will remain slim despite eating a lot. "Someone who can not sit still will burn more energy than someone who is passive and quiet," said Dr Lowe.

Diet Failure Causes

Diet Failure Causes

Not everyone managed to lose weight after a diet. Many events, weight back on after stopping a diet (diet yo-yo). Apparently this is the case.

The experts found that people who experienced yo-yo dieting is caused by karakterteristik of protein levels in the blood.

Researchers found women who berahsil maintain weight well tend to have a large enzyme levels. This shows the level of this enzyme affects a person in maintaining his weight.

The possibility of proteins contained in these enzymes may affect the functioning of hormones that control how the body perceives a full stomach and makes the body store extra fat and water.

Levels of enzymes that were not found in women who experienced yo-yo dieting.

"Yo-yo diet can disrupt a person's psychological because he will feel like a failure in reducing weight and can reduce her confidence," says Dr Susan Jebb of the Medical Research Council's nutrition center in Cambridge, as quoted from Dailymail, Monday (28/02/2011).

Dr Jebb recalled the importance of studying the causes of a person failed in dieting. With such a strategy could be determined what needs to be done for people to keep their weight in the long term.

This discovery will provide clues for a person to perform simple blood tests before a diet. This is to give assistance in maintaining a slim body.

The study was conducted by researchers from 8 countries in Europe who analyzed blood from 96 participants who successfully lose weight. About half of the participants managed to maintain their weight, while the other half actually gain weight after stopping the diet.

Researchers conducted blood tests on 34 proteins that show levels of a substance called angiotensin-converting enzyme. This substance is strongly associated with women who have yo-yo dieting or weight women with unstable.

How to Remove a Gas in Stomach

How to Remove a Gas in Stomach

Excess gas in the stomach can cause discomfort and sometimes the shame of the stomach so often reads. But this excess gas can be removed from the abdomen through several exercises.

Excessive gas buildup in the abdomen can be caused by many things, like foods that contain lots of gas consumption, have digestive problems due to less active or moving.

However, the excess gas in the stomach can be removed by doing some light exercise, as quoted from the LIVESTRONG, Tuesday (01/03/2011), namely:

Walk
Sometimes the gas in the stomach just because people do not actively move, because it is enough to cope with light exercises like walking. If you're feeling bloated and gassy stomach, try to get up from his seat and walk around. This can help relieve pain and also remove gas from the body.

Wind relieving pose (wind shake)
One of the yoga poses are believed to help relieve gas in the stomach is the wind relieving pose (wind shake). This force will push the stomach that makes it easier to remove the gas.

The trick is to lie on your back and then pull one knee toward your chest and hold it with both hands. Slowly pull your knees up closer to the chest, hold and repeat on the other foot. If possible can also do it at once both feet simultaneously.

Garland Pose
This style is a technique to open the hips making it easier for the body to release the gas. The trick is to stand with both feet and then spread like a praying hands position.

After that bend the knee to a squatting position while exhaling with elbow position was in the knees and back straight. Hold this position for several seconds which allows gas to be released.

Although some exercise can help remove the gas from the stomach, but there are some things you can do to prevent it, such as implementing a healthy diet that contains protein, vegetables, fruits and grains, consuming 8 glasses of water per day, avoiding soda and milk products that can be aggravate the condition.

This He Equations Sex and Sports

This He Equations Sex and Sports

Sex and sport have much in common. In addition to burning calories, there is another equation of sex and sports are amazing.

No matter whether the sports are played including team or individual in the group, someone still could take many lessons from the sport as a necessary strategy and communication with each other during exercise.

Mark Christian, PhD, a focus on Human Sexuality and Statistics at Indiana University says there are a few things about sex that can be learned from sports, such as dikutuip from FoxNews, Tuesday (03/01/2011), namely:

1. Always remember to breathe
Almost all sports advise players to keep breathing well, not least with the sex. This is probably quite easy to remember, but sometimes people like to shrugged it off. Breathing plays an important role during lovemaking because breathing is good and in can lead to better sex.

2. Work together as a team
Sexual intercourse involves other people and not just yourself. This means that the sex takes a good cooperation as a team, like teams in sports.

3. Take turns
When exercising every person will have their turn to play, this is the same as during sex. Because if couples do not take turns with each other (so there is a dominate) will quickly lead to boredom with one another which affect the declining quality of sexual relations.

4. Thank strengths and weaknesses rather than complain
In every game there are always rules, and sometimes in a sexual relationship also there are some things to be mutually agreed. Because it is for sex may work well, there's nothing wrong to accept the shortcomings and strengths of each partner.

5. Set goals and commitments
In a sport usually has a purpose and a shared commitment, it is also the same as sex. If a couple is not ready on a matter, then make a plan. There is nothing wrong in making the commitments and objectives regarding the frequency, position or anything related to sex so that they can enjoy sex with both.

6. Exercise
In the sport needed a good workout in order to produce a perfect game, this is also true of sex. With frequent exercise, the person can increase the expertise and its ability to produce the perfect sex.

7. Try more flexible
Everything could change that sometimes occurs in the middle of the game, but as players they are usually more flexible and can accept everything. This also applies in a sexual relationship. For that try to be more flexible and less rigid if there is something that changes in sexual relations.

8. Learning to communicate
One of the important things in a game is good communication between players, as well as in sex. Each couple can share their wants and needs without fear of negative reactions. This condition will create a healthy relationship and affect the sexual relationship better.

How to Distinguish Bread Containing Harmful Preservatives

How to Distinguish Bread Containing Harmful Preservatives

Some days lately info about the dangers of many outstanding bakery bread because they contain many preservatives. Do not panic! Not all bread is dangerous. Because it is known tips to distinguish the bread contains a lot of preservatives.

Almost all industrial products today do not exist that is free from additives (additional) and preservatives. Both have been used in the food industry, medicine and cosmetics for hundreds of years.

Preservatives is one additive which of course is used to create a product is not easily damaged by disturbance fungi, bacteria or other microbes.

Ir Chandra Irawan, MSI, food chemistry and nutrition experts from the Academy of Chemical Analysts said Bogor, some manufacturers 'naughty' is like entering preservatives such as Calcium and Potassium Bromate Propianate excessively into the bread dough. Preservatives are usually added to make bread more durable and the view is always interesting.

Potassium Bromate (KBrO3) is a bread improver which is usually added to bread and flour, which serves as the developer of bread dough, making bread is stronger and more elastic.

But Potassium Bromate is considered a carcinogen (cancer-triggering) by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (Agency for Research on Cancer or IARC), which can be harmful if consumed, as reported by nowpublic, Wednesday (03/02/2011).

A study conducted Kurokawa Y, A Maekawa, M Takahashi and Y Hayashi from the Division of Toxicology, National Institute of Hygienic Sciences, Tokyo, also has found that KBrO3 can induce renal cell tumors, mesotheliomas of the peritoneum, and follicular thyroid tumor cells, such as ncbi.nlm.nih.gov reported.

In theory, the substance of this preservative should come out of bread dough during baking, but if too much is added or if the bread is not cooked long enough or not at temperatures high enough, then the preservative will still remain on the rolls.

"Preservatives that was its function to kill microorganisms. But if preserved inserted unnecessarily, it will be difficult synthesized or degraded by the body, eventually deposited. Well, after a long time can lead to cancer because of his nature karsinoge," said Ir Chandra.

While Calcium Propianate used as a preservative in bread and other baked goods. Preservatives are used to prevent growth of fungi and bacteria. But manufacturers often add this to excess preservative in bread dough.

"Yes but not all manufacturers are like that, so it must be smart to choose," said Ir Chandra.

Here are some ways given Ir Chandra to distinguish the bread that uses excessive preservatives, namely:

   1. Period expired bread into very long time than usual
   2. Display is very white bread
   3. Its texture is soft and chewy, but being a bit hard so that can be durable.